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A 'miracle' boy in Alabama has become the first baby in the world to be born from a transplanted womb outside of a clinical trial.The child was born in May via C-section at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).His mother, Mallory,…

A baby boy carried in a uterus that was implanted into his mother by a robot has been born in a world first.The youngster, who has not been named, weighed six pounds and 13 ounces when he was born via planned C-section in Sweden last month.…

In a study publishing in the journal Cell Stem Cell on February 2, researchers show that brain organoids -- clumps of lab-grown neurons -- can integrate with rat brains and respond to visual stimulation like flashing lights. Decades of…

In a new study involving three volunteers, skin scars began to behave more like uninjured skin after they were treated with hair follicle transplants. The scarred skin harboured new cells and blood vessels, remodelled collagen to restore…

A mother-of-one who lost her nose eight years ago in a battle with cancer has finally got a new one — after growing it on her arm.The French patient, known only as Carine, had part of her real nose cut off to treat sinus cancer in…

Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine and MU Health Care have discovered how obstructive sleep apnea affects the gut microbiome in mice and how transplanting gut bacteria from sleep apnea affected mice can cause…

The multidisciplinary Zurich research team Liver4Life has succeeded in doing something during a treatment attempt that had never been achieved in the history of medicine until now: it treated an originally damaged human liver in a machine…

Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) have the capacity to both self-renew and differentiate into all mature blood cell types, making them promising treatments for a variety of diseases. However, the mechanisms involved in engraftment -- when the…

After doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine successfully implanted a pig’s heart in Maryland resident David Bennett, researchers feel that it will take a few more years until it becomes an everyday reality.The pig heart…

The successful transplantation of a genetically modified pig’s heart into the body of a human, which is a medical first, on Tuesday was a major achievement for the doctors and researchers of the University of Maryland School of Medicine…